Halloween: Resurrection

So I ran into this last night and it was one of several Halloween movies that I had never seen. I wasn't as on board with the Halloween franchise as I was with other 80's classic horror films and that is probably why I waited all of these years to see this one. It was simply featured on my Netflix home page, presumably because everything horror related is going to start to be featured. It was late, I was tired of searching around so I figured I'd give it a shot.

I only made it about 40 minutes into the film and was tired of groaning and rolling my eyes so I switched it off.

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I go into almost every film that I watch "blind" in an effort to have a truly unbiased opinion. I don't look at any review scores or opinions about it and therefore my own opinion wont be tainted by the views of other people. After giving up on this horrible turd of a movie I went to bed. The following day I looked at the public's consensus about this movie and found that it has a paltry 12% approval rating, was pounced on negatively by critics, and even John Carpenter - who had almost nothing to do with the production of this movie other than sell his rights to it, couldn't even remember the name of the film entirely when asked about it but just said something along the lines of "you mean that one with all the cameras in the house, oh my lord, oh my god, I just couldn't believe it."

The movie starts out as you would expect, with a series of events that establishes the fact that Michael Myers is still alive (because of course he is) and Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in a mental hospital pretending to be insane and doped up on meds but of course, even though she is locked up in her room all day long she has somehow managed to set up an elaborate trap for Myers without any of the staff ever noticing. Myers also gets into the asylum absurdly easy, and immediately finds her room. She bizarrely kisses Michael before she is eliminated from the rest of the film. I would imagine that this happened because at this point in here life Curtis had already moved on to other and better things than this and their $15 million budget couldn't afford to make Curtis be in more than 4 minutes worth of shooting.

Then we get to the real meat and potatoes of this film, or the turds and scraps of it anyway. When I saw Katee Sackhoff it took me a second to confirm that it was in fact her. I have fond memories of her from Battlestar Galactica so I had hoped she would be able to breathe some life into this movie but no, she could not. Her portrayal as a "young" college students was just as stupid as all of the other 30 year old "college students" that she was surrounded with.

I've never understood this about films in general. Is it really that difficult to find actual age-appropriate people for the films? It's not like any of these people were huge names at the time so why not just cast actual 20 year olds? I suppose if there was one thing I could appreciate about this movie it would be about how it highlighted the idiocy of how badly people want to get some fame no matter the cost. This is well before TikTok videos but in that period of time the world was just gaga for reality shows even if said show was going to make them look like a bunch of spoiled idiots.

In Resurrection an MTV-like production company wants to film a reality show in the Michael Myers murder house that apparently everyone is aware of but it is just sitting there, abandoned. This is a truly ridiculous concept because certainly such a famous house would be torn down but whatever, we needed it for the story.

The idea here is that all the hidden cameras in the house where the fictional reality show is being filmed was going to have a bunch of camera angles that wouldn't make sense in a film sense otherwise. Not only did watching a monitor of the action inside the house not appeal the viewers of the film, but it actually made the entire thing even more difficult to even watch.

I never really thought about movies this way, but if any point you are watching something and Busta Rhymes is the best actor in the movie after you've been watching it for 20 minutes, you probably have chosen a poor film to watch.

Should I watch it?

I was a big fan of poorly produced horror films when I was a kid. I would go out of my way to find them and I think a lot of other people did so as well. The difference between those movies and this one is that they were not intended to be taken seriously while Halloween Resurrection actually IS supposed to be taken seriously. The dialogue, the acting, the overdubbing when the scenes couldn't be re-shot, the absurd situations, and the really taking Michael Myers' ability to teleport to a new level are all just too much for me in this absolutely horrible film. Most people agree that this was an unnecessary cash grab on the part of the Halloween franchise and many people have said that they believe that not only is this the worst Halloween movie, but it is one of the worst sequels to ANY horror film ever made.

I wish I could say that it qualifies as a "so bad its good" movie but alas, it can't even have that. I'm surprised that the Halloween franchise was able to resurface years later because this one, nearly succeeded in completely killing it forever.

I'd be very surprised if anyone can actually make it all the way through this movie unironically.